Several people who were able to look up the footage and
evaluate it have stated that they believe what I saw was an ice crystal
being illuminated by the camera light or the sun, and that several similar
objects appear earlier in the footage (which I did not see), shot over
Brazil. We appreciate these hunters for skulking out the real-deal! - webmaster

Tonight at approximately 2:15 Central time on DirectTV
Satellite channel 376 (NASA) they were broadcasting a shot from the Shuttle/Space
Station of the darkened earth, where only the city lights could be seen
apart from the faint corona around the edge of the globe. I could not tell
if this was live feed or not. This went on for roughly five minutes or
so from the time I tuned in and then suddenly, an extremely bright, solid
white disc appeared in the lower portion of the screen and shot inward,
toward the earth, at terrific speed (leaving a tracer on the camera in
its wake). As soon as this happened, the feed went black and returned to
their standard map of the globe showing the orbital paths of the shuttle.

If anyone was taping around this time, double check your
tape for this. It was definitely not space debris, was perfect in shape,
appeared to be self-luminous and moved at a terrific velocity away from
the camera, toward earth, getting smaller as it went. Below is an illustration
of what was seen.

Comment
Ralph Scavone
8-4-5

Jeff, I was wondering if anyone else noticed the sphere
that came into the live shuttle feed just after the astronauts entered
the shuttle Monday? It was a video feed of the open cargo bay doors at
the very end of the spacewalk mission It entered the picture from the lower
right and floated near the docking tube then left the picture to the upper
right of the frame. the whole incident lasted about 4 seconds and sure
didn't look like an ice crystal to me! Just was curious if ANYONE else
noticed it and could possibly explain it? (P.S I think it was about 10:28pm
Chicago time)